[fpc-devel] Too big documentation images

Florian Klaempfl florian at freepascal.org
Sun May 25 12:45:37 CEST 2008


Florian Klaempfl schrieb:
> Michael Van Canneyt schrieb:
>>
>> On Sun, 25 May 2008, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>>
>>>> On Sun, 25 May 2008 10:31:23 +0200 (CEST)
>>>> Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>>>>>> My idea would be just taking the current ones and cutting the white
>>>>>> area. Shouldn't that be enougth?
>>>>> No, because they would be overwritten the next time the docs are
>>>>> built.
>>>> So, the biggest issue is to find a latex to html converter?
>>> It has been an issue for 10 years now.
>>
>> Exactly. There are 4 converters:
>>
>> Latex2html - a huge perl script which needs more time and memory than 
>> God      needed to create the earth, to convert the docs.  We dumped 
>> it because      it simply takes too long. It's good for small 
>> documents (articles), but
>>      not for books.
>>
>> tex4ht - Was very good, but has some issues. Problem is that it's no 
>> longer
>>          maintained, and is no longer included in e.g. SuSE.
> 
> Last version is from 2007 

Actually, last changes are from 2008-05-10: 
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/bugfixes.html



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